Title
On Finding Socially Tenuous Groups for Online Social Networks
Abstract
Existing research on finding social groups mostly focuses on dense subgraphs in social networks. However, finding socially tenuous groups also has many important applications. In this paper, we introduce the notion of k-triangles to measure the tenuity of a group. We then formulate a new research problem, Minimum k-Triangle Disconnected Group (MkTG), to find a socially tenuous group from online social networks. We prove that MkTG is NP-Hard and inapproximable within any ratio in arbitrary graphs but polynomial-time tractable in threshold graphs. Two algorithms, namely TERA and TERA-ADV, are designed to exploit graph-theoretical approaches for solving MkTG on general graphs effectively and efficiently. Experimental results on seven real datasets manifest that the proposed algorithms outperform existing approaches in both efficiency and solution quality.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1145/3097983.3097995
KDD
Field
DocType
Citations 
Social group,Graph,Social network,Computer science,Exploit,Artificial intelligence,Tera-
Conference
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.37
20
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Chih-Ya Shen110317.13
Liang-Hao Huang2855.32
De-Nian Yang358666.66
Hong-Han Shuai410024.80
Wang-Chien Lee55765346.32
Ming Chen665071277.71